FLYERS NOW “SEE” BY RADIO SIGNALS
T?ADIO serves not only to keep the air traveller in touch with the telephone and telegraph systems on the ground, and to provide weather information for the pilot, but actually guides the pilot on his course when all landmarks are obliterated from view. This ; is not a dream of the future—it is
a reality today. “The Department of Commerce is now maintaining radio beacons which serve to guide the pilots over the established airways,” reports W. P. MacCracken, Junior assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics. “As a matter of fact, the pilot does not even have to listen to the signals any more. All he has to do is to look at the instruments in front of him, which automatically record the signals so as to tell him whether he is to the right or left of his course, or on it, and a signal from the marker beacon is flashed out as he flies over these.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 687, 12 June 1929, Page 14
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